Machine for setting lacing-hooks.



W. SIMPSON d: W. G. BRAY.

MACHINE FOR SETTING LAOING HOOKS.

APPLICATION FILED IA]. #1, 1903. I

Patented Sgpt 22, 1908.

4 SHEETS-432121 I.

SIMPSON & W'. c. BRAY.

MACHINE FOR SETTING LACING HOOKS.

4 I w APPLICATION FILIL'J JAIL, 1903.

Patented Sept. 22, 1908.

W. SIMPSON & W. G. BRAY.- HAGHINBPOB SETTING LACING HOOKS. APPLIOATIOI rILzn in. a1, 1903.

Patenfied Sept 22, 1968.

W. SIMPSON k W. 0 BEAT. MACHINE r011 SETTING LAcmu HOOKS.

APPLICATION FILED JAR. 31, 1903.

Patented Sept 22, 1.908.

SHEETS--SKEET 4.

UNITED STATES PiiLDENT oF IcE.

WILLIAM SIMPSON, OF QUINCY, ANDli'I LLLAM O. DRAY, OF NEWTON, MASfiACHUSETTS, ASSIUNORS 'IO TUBULAR RIVE'I dz STUD COMPANY, BOSTON, MASSACHUSET'QS, A

CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

macmm: ron ss'r'rmo cactus-Booms.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 22, 1908. g

- Application flied January a1, 1903. mm No. 141,255.

Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Setting Lacing- Hooks, of which the following is a specificae tion.

The invention relates to machines for setting lacing hooks or studs and more especia y to a machine which sets a number of hooks at each operation.

In the machine in which the various features of the invention have been embodied the hooks are separated from a mass of hooks and supplied to a raceway down which they slide and from which individual hooks are delivered to a series of setting devices. The settingdevices consist of a hook carrier provided with a series of recesses which receive and osition the hooks, and a series of anvils whic cooperate with the carrier to set the i hooks in the material to which they are to be a. plied. The carrier is arranged to su port t e hooks with their shanks in a vertica position so that the material may be conveniently inserted and held horizontally in sight of the operator during the setting operation. The hooksfare directed into the recesses in the hookcarrier by a series of guideways which branch oil from the raceway for the hooks and have their delivery ends in register with the recesses in the carrier. At the ehtrance end of each guidewa is a separator which separates individua hooks from the series of hooks in the raceway and supplies them to the 'guideway. The uidownys curve from a substantially vertica into a substantially horizontal plane and as a hook passes into the horizontal part of a; guideway it passes in front of a reciprocating feeding finger which pushes it forward into the recess in the carrier and holds it in position durin the setting. After the setting l8 completed t 1e carrier is moved away from the ends of the guideways to disengage the carrier-from the hooks.

In the accompanying drawin s in which a machine is shown embodying all the features of the invention in the preferred form Figure 1 is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fi 3 is avertical section on line 33 Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 isadetail plan'view of the front part of the machine below the setting anvils. Fig. 6 isa perspective detail showing a separator, guideway and the hook carrier.

Fig. 7 is a section through the hook carrier showing a hook in position for setting. Figs. 8, 9 and 10 are details of the devices for se crating hooks from amass.

he machine shown in the drawings is designed to set six hooks at one operation and is accordingly provided with a series of six setting devices. There are two sets of feeding devices,for supplying the hooks to these six setting devices each set of feeding devices supplying hooks to three of the settin devices, the feeding devices for three 0 the setting devices being on one side of the machine and the feedin devices for the other -three setting devices emg ofthe same construction and arranged'on the o posite side of the machine. By thus duplicating the feeding devices the device for separating the hooks from a mass of hooks is required to separate onh one half the number of hooks instead of the full number re uired by the gang of set-ting devices as would be the case if only one set of feeding devices were used and a constant supply of hooks is assured.

A single set of devices may be used however if desired where a single se aratin device will supply a sufiicient num er of ooks to the raceway. In describing the machine only one set of feeding devlces will be re: ferred to. The hooks are placed in a be per Ahavi a rotatin lower section A t e cylindrie portion 0- which is 1provided with asaties of vertical ribs A igs. 8 and 9). \Vithin the ribs A is a stationary curved plate A having an inclined upper edge which ex tends upward from near the bottom of the hopper and out throu h an opening near the top of the hop r. the hooks are carried around wit the part A of the hopper some of the hooks straddle the late A and lots late A which is parallel to plate A and orms a retaining plate which overlies the ola t o A".

rent the hopper towards the front oi" the. maf chine and forms the supporting and guiding 1 plate of the raceway for supplying hooks to the setting devices. The )ltllC X also extends outside the hopper and forms the retaining plate of the raceway.

'lhc retaining shanks ol' the hooks and retain them on the Y others and forms a stop for the hooks at the 'lhe plate A" extends downward end fcm-h raceway. hen the separators are rocked the Ii )5 C are withdrawn from under the hooks ttereon so that the hooks may mss down the guid-cways. If they do not slide down by reason of thcirwcight. the part 1 C strikes them and gives them a start so that plate A provided with an opening A within the hopper formed by a lateral ollset i in the plate t trough which the hooks which pass under the retaining plate may escape in case the guide plate A i'n'advance of the owning is full of hooks. in such case the ribs A acting against the end of the series of hooks will cause the series to buckle at the openin where the hooks are not prevented front rising, and thus the books will lift off the guide plate at this point. until the hooks in advance of the. opening can move forward.

The raceway at its lower and turns and extends laterally and horizontally. From the horizontal part of the raceway three guideways B lead to the setting devices. ilhesc guidcways are formed by the undercut edges of bars B the edges of the bars being a stillicient distance apart to receive and guide the. necks of the. hooks and the undercut parts being formed to receive and guide the. heads of the hooks so that they pass along the guideway without turning and with the open side of the hook in advance. The tops of tho oars B form a crmtinuation ol' the plate A" and the horizontal part of the raceway for the hooks. The. bars B curve from avertical into a horizontal plane andextend towards hook between the guit the front of the machine. At the entrain-c end of each guideway where it branches oil from the raceway is located a separator C having a lip C which is in line. with the tops These lips in the normal poof the bars B. sition form apart of the guiding plate of the raceway along which the hooks pass. The separator C has a part (,I which overhangs the lip C and serves to strike the. hook as the separator is operated and-advance thqhook into the guidew-ay and also serves to prevent a second hook from advancing in the. racewa until the separator has returned to norma position.

The separators C are loosely mounted on a shaft 0 and are rocked siinultaneouslyat the roper time by mechanism to be described. yvhen the separators are in normal position the hooks pass along the horizontal part. of the racewav under the ll llueuce of the hooks on the inclined part and the guideways B and separators are so arranged that there is a hook in position on each separator lip C; The. guideways are so s raced that there is one lewavs. 'l'his spacing is used for compactness and simplicity as the space between guideways" might be. wide enou h for two or more. hooks. 'lhev middle bar' fi' extends up above the ends of the.

they slide down into the horizontal part of,

the gnidewa-ys. S )rings B are arranged to be engaged by the. reads of the hooks so that the hooks shall not slide too far forward in the gnidcways at this time, \Vhen the se aratois return to normal position the hon s slide along the tops of the bars B and over.

the lips C. and again till the horizontal part. of the raceway.

As the hooks slide down the guideways B the pass in front of a series of fingers D which are carried in a slide D and have. their upper ends arranged to move in the guideways. The slide D is then advanced and the fingers push the hooks forward into the recesses of the hook carrier F. There is a recess at the exit end of each guideway and each recess consists of a. pocket, F and a notch F in a plate F which is arranged to lie between the head of the hook and the shank and supportthe. hook during the set; ting. The pocket- F receives the head of the hook-and the notch F" receives the neck, and together they position'the hook for the setting. The plate. is rigidly supported'at both sides and at the rear of the pocket and advanced position during the settin The carrier F consists of a. block on the upper end of which the snp mrting plate or dates and the reces es for the hooks are iormed. This block is pivoted at f and is swa away from the guides B after the setting to disengage the recesses from the hooks. At the same time the lingers l) are retracted, and the separators C operated tosup )ly lumks to the guideways after which the hugeis are again advanced to carry the hooks into the. recesses which hm'e been returned The shanks ol' thehouks' are s n'ead to set and ioo clcnch them in the material )y means of anvils H. These anvihs are carried in the ends of three levers ll there being two anvils in each lever. cessivcly by three rains it 'on the'cam shaft 1.

These levels are operated suciv thus mounting and operating the anvils ho es in the separators.

this..pullcy. may it: connccted with the main shaft K bv anv suia. able. devices which will give the siaft a single revolution each time it is tripped by the operator as is common in hook setting ranged to strike a machinesv The shaft K carries the cams for operating the separators C the finger slides D and the hook carrier-F. The separators are operated by a cam roll c,(Fig. 3) a1"- lever c the other end of which is connected with the four inner separators. The connection consists of a link 0 pivoted to the separators and extending through the end of lever c. A spring 0 is interposed bet-ween a collar 0' on the ink and the upper side of the lever and holds the lever against a not 0 on the. link. The spring fornisa yielding connection in case a hook becomes jammed and prevents the movement of the separator.

The slide D is 0 eratcd by a cam d Fig. 2 which eiwagcs a ro l on a lever d the up in end of w rich is connect-ed by a link (1 with the slide D. The. slide is guided in the frame and has a cross bar' in which the fingers l) are adjustablv secured. The roll is held against the cam by a spring (1. The hook carrier F is rocked by a cam f Fig. 3 arranged to net on a lever f the upper end of which is connected by a link f with an arm f depending from carrier F. The lever is held against the. cam by a springf. The shaft 1 which carries the cams h'ior operating the setting anvils is driven from shaft K by means of gears K and I. The rotating part A of each'hopper is secure-:1 to the upper and of a vertical shaft a and theseparts are geared together by gears a formed thereon so that they revolve in unison and in opposite directions. One of the shafts a is provided with a bevel gear a, at its lower end which meshes with asimilar ear on a short shaft a driven from shaft {5 through ears P and a. The stationary parts of the toppers and the upper ends of the plates A and A are supported on arms A secured to studs A titted loosely in holes in the parts A of the. hop ers.

Normally t- 12 n'inchine stands as shown in the main view oi the drawings with the fingers D advanced and holding the hooks in the recesses 'F' as shown in Fig. 7. The

material is them placed. in .position against guidelu amt'the machine started. The' anvilsfirst descend and set the hooks then the hook carrier is operated to disengage the hooks and at thesame time the fingers D are retracted and'thc separators C operated; the carrier F is then returned and the fingers D advanced to' carry the hooks into the recesses F, F. The parts then remainin this osition until again thrown into operation.

he raceway and guit l eways' branching therefrom form a simple and eflicient means for feeding hooks to a series of setting de- I vices and are well adapted for feeding hooks to setting devices which present the hooks with the shanks vertical'and also admit of a close arrangement of the setting devices.

While the construction shown is a. simple and cilicient embodiment of the features. of

the invention it will be understood that changes and modifications therein may be made without departiz from the invention the essential features :3 to in the claims.

What we claim and desire to secure ters Patent is:

1. A machine for scttin lacin hooks havwith a series of recesses and supportin plates to receive and support a series of hooks their shanks vertical, means for feeding a series of hooks to said recesses and plates reciprocating anvils for cooperating with sai carriers to set the hooks, and means for moving said carrier to disengage the carrier from the hooks after the setting, substantially as described. 2. A machine for setti. la cing hooks having in combination a raceway for the hooks, and means for'separating a plurality of hooks from't he series of hooks in the raceway and feeding them to a series of setting devices, substantiall as described. 3. A machine for setting laying hooks hav ing in combination, a raceway for the books, a series of guidcways leading from different oints in the raceway, and means for transerrmg lndn'idual hooks from said raceway to each of said guideways, substantially as described. 5

4.. A machine for settin lacing hooks having in combination, a hocik carrier provided with a series of.- recesses -and supporti which are referred byLetplates to receiveand support -a series 0 ing in combination ahoo carrier provided with ooks, a series. of guideways leading to said recesses and plates, and a raceway for su plying hooks to said series o'fguideways, su V I Zi) stantially as described. a

5. A machine for settin lacing hooks hav-- ing in combination, a hon carrier provided with a series of recesses and supporting plates to receive and support a series of hooks, a raceway for the hooks, a series of guideways extending from said raceway to said recesses and plates, a series of separators for separating individual hooks 'from the series ui the race-way and delivering them into the guidewidth of one or more hooks, and separators ways and means for advancing the hooks in the guideway to the recesses and plates, substantially as described.

6. A machine for setting lacing studs having in combination, a hoppcrfor the books, a

holding t 10 hooks on the guidingp atc,means for forcing the hooks along the guiding plate, and an opening in the retaining plate for the escape o the hooks when their movementalong the guiding plate in advance of said opening is prevented, substantially as described.

7. A machine for setting lacing hooks ha ving in combination, a raceway for the hooks, a series of guideways leading from said raccway and separated from each other by the for transferring individual hooks to said guideways, substantially as described.

3. A machine for setting lacing hooks having in combination, a hook carrier provided with a series of recesses for receiving and supporting a series of hooks, reciprocating anvils cooperatim with said carrier to set. the hooks, means or operating said anvils successively, and .nc-ans for feeding hooks to' saidi'eeesses, substantially as described.

9. A machine Jorsetting lacing hooks having in c nnbination, a series of setting devices, means for a-i'ittmiatically feeding hooks to said setting devices and means for 0 )crating said settingideviccs successivcl t uring each setting operatioi ubstantial y as described.

10. A machine for .tting lacing hooks having in combination, a hm k carrier having a series of recesses and support ng plates, a

series of guideways registering with said recesses, means for su )plying hooks to said guides, means for advancing the hooks in said guides and holding them in said recesses and on said plates during the setting, and

means for moving the carrier away from the 7 guidcways to dlscngage the recesses and plates from the hooks, substantially as described.

11. A machine for setting lacing hooks having rcet-ing the hooks with the open side in advance, a hook carrier havin a pocket with an open front to register with the guidew'ay, aplate on the carrier provided with a notch for engaging the neck of the hook, means for feeding the hook along the guidcway with the open side in advance, means for moving the carrier away from the guideway after each setting operation and returning it before the next sctting operation, substantially as described.

plates, a series of guide-ways registering with said recesses and plates, means for fccdingi vided with a series-of three or more support- LQO in combination, a guideway for di-g t hooks ccsses and p ates, a series 0 reciproeatin anvils cooperating with said carrier, an means for moving the carrier away from the guidewa v's after each setting operation and returning it ht-fore the next setting opt-ration, substantially as described.

i 13. A machine for settinglaeing hooks.

! having in ct'unhination, a hookcarrier provided with a recess and supporting plate for the books, a guideway registering with said 2 recess, means for feeding hooks through the guidcway to the recess and plate, a reciprocating aiivil cooperating with said carrier, and means for moving the carrier away from the guidr-\-.'a v after each setting operation to disengage the carrier from the hook and returning it before the next setting operation i to receive the succeeding hook, subst-an ually as described.

14. A machine for setting lacing hooks having in combination, a hook carrier providcd with a series of recesses and supporting plates, a raceway for the hooks, a series of guidewzvvs extending from said raceway to said recesses and plates, a series of reciprocating anvils cooperating with said carrier, and 1Ill'8ll for moving the carrier away from the gnidcways after each setting o ieration and returning it hct'ore the S'tlt't'LOt ing setting operation, subshtntially as described.

15. A machine for setting lacing hooks having in c-nnhination, a raceway for the hooks, a series of guidcways extending from said raceway, a hook carrier provided with a. i st'lits of rcccsscs and supporting plates regisvils cooperating with said carrier, and means for disengaging the carrier from the hooks described.

ho a scrics ot' guideways lcauiug from said racewav, means for transferring individual h ok from the raceway to each of said guideways, a hookcarricr provided with a series of recesses and supporting plates rcgisicring with said guidewavs, and a series 2 of reciprocating anvils cooperating with said carrier. substantially as described.

17. A machine for setting lacin having in combination, a hook carrier provided with a series of three or more recesses f and supporting plates to receive and support positively feeding a series of hooks to'said recesses and with said carrier to set the hooks, and means i for moving said'carrier to disengage the car rier from the hooks after the setting, substantially as described.

18. A machine for setting lacing hooks having in combination a hook carrier prothrongh said guide a 's to said re-' after each setting operation, substantially as a series f hooks, means for engaging and.

)ltlttS, anvils for cooperating tcring with said guidcwa'ys, rcclprocating'an- Hi. machine for setting lacingdio'oks having in combination, a raceway for the hooks -1'n;5 plan-.3 fur receiving and I v s 99,1a7 5 supporting a so f ries of hooks along the guideways and on to the plates, auvzls for (-mipemtmg \v1th the rivs of hunks, lm-ans ul engaging and pm Hruly fvc'ling a series of hunks untu snid pcarncr to set Um hooks, and means for mov plan-s, :unils fur .:r 1( pvr.-1ting wizhsaidplatesflmg the plates to discnga-"ithem from the to 14 Hm huuks, nml mums fur moving saidhouks after the setting, fitautially as deplnlvs m list-@1310 Llum [mm the hooks scribed. after (he flaming. sll xwhlnfl zluy as dcscrimd. If). lnachinv l'ur svliing hlc-ing hunks, having. in rmnlfinution, a hunk carrier projdmi u it!) n sorivs of suppm'ling plates to 10- who and support a svrws uf hunks, .1 series of guizh-ways for dvlivvring hooks 1-0 said plates, mums for (-ngnging and feeding :1 seiglmturcs, in PI'C'SCIIK'C of I'm,- witn sscs WILLIAM SIM SON. \VILLIAB-I C. BRA). 'il-prsscsz v I F. A. Pong,

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